展览预告 | 天·地：聆听澳洲大地之声

Ochre and Sky: Listening to the Land of Australia

天·地：聆听澳洲大地之声

艺术家

Alison Page

Nik Lachajczak

周小平

开幕时间

2024年3月22日 15:00

展览时间

2024年3月15日-2024年5月12日

展览地点

光明文化艺术中心美术馆5F展厅C

主办单位

中共深圳市光明区委宣传部

深圳市光明区文化广电旅游体育局

光明文化艺术中心

澳大利亚国家博物馆

支持单位

深圳华侨城文化集团有限公司

澳中基金会

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展览前言

澳洲大陆幅员辽阔，地形多样，从沙漠到雨林，从海滩到丛林。其悠长的人类史，可追溯到最早的原住民。展览通过古老的叙事习俗与当代艺术形式结合，探讨澳大利亚人与这片土地亘古至今的相互关系，沉浸式体验项目、独具特色的艺术装置、来自地球另一块大陆的图腾，汇成一场别开生面的文化盛宴。

展览包括一部宽屏电影、以及原住民艺术家、电影制作人爱丽丝 ∙ 佩姬和澳籍中国艺术家周小平的装置作品。影片《天·地》由ZAKPAGE公司的电影制作人爱丽丝·佩姬和尼克·拉恰伊扎克创作，它探讨了澳大利亚人与这片土地亘古亘今的相互关系。在我们面临全球环境挑战的时刻，它引领我们触摸大地之魂，汲取先人之智慧。

同展的装置作品分别是爱丽丝·佩姬创作的《图腾》和周小平创作的《生命·土地》。其中周小平所创作的装置艺术《生命·土地》，以中国人日常中最重要的饮食一一大米为媒介，将中西方艺术观念以及澳洲原住民艺术融合，表达了中国和澳洲这两个古老文化的民族的某些相似之处，以及延续千年的传统习俗，展示了土地自然、生命和关爱之间的相互联系和意义。

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关于作品与艺术家

《天·地》

爱丽丝·佩姬和尼克·拉恰伊扎克

《图腾》

爱丽丝·佩姬

“我们是这土地的一部分。我们与天空、水和土地相连。那些与动物、植物，以及土地紧紧相连的故事，传唱了千万年。从我们降生的那一刻起，来自土地的精萃、自然元素的力量和先祖的回响，源源不断地滋养着我们的生命。如大多数人一样，澳洲原住民通过祖先和家族的记忆传承这种连接，而祭典，以及对土地如家人般的珍爱使传承饱含生命力。因为，当我们爱护我们的家园――那水、那土地、那动物，它们必回赠于我们。”

——爱丽丝·佩姬

Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak

爱丽丝·佩姬和尼克·拉恰伊扎克是ZAKPAGE公司屡获殊荣的制片人，他们还涉猎雕塑、设计和建筑领域。他们在创作中营造一种仪式感氛围，用古老的叙事习俗与当代艺术形式结合，为后代保存和推广原住民的知识、历史和仪式。爱丽丝·佩姬来自南悉尼的Wadi Wadi和Walbanga原住民族群；尼克·拉恰伊扎克来自塔斯马尼亚州的霍巴特。他们携手澳洲各地的原住民族群，共同创作。

2020年，ZAKPAGE在澳大利亚国家博物馆举办了The Message: The Story from the Shore for the Endeavour Voyage展览，从原住民的视角讲述了库克船长在澳洲东海岸航行的故事。ZAKPAGE目前正在与新南威尔士州北部的Gumbaynggirr族群合作，为位于科夫斯港的公共文化空间提供一个“欢迎来到原住民的家园”数字化多媒体体验。

《生命·土地》

周小平

“在这个装置艺术作品中，我以“米” 为媒介，展示土地、自然、生命和关爱之间的相互联系和意义。大米，在中国人日常饮食中占重要地位，也成为原住民喜爱的食物。赭色粉末来自澳洲土地，和米一起象征生命与大地的关系。对于原住民来说，土地就是他们的生命。使用米作为艺术媒介，还传达了一种跨文化信息，即在日常生活中可产生的共鸣。运用这样简单的符号和我们熟悉的材料，似乎可以感受到两个民族文化间的对话和相互倾听。如果我们从人类学的角度去审视这两个古老文化的民族，不难发现他们之间的某些相似之处：都有强烈的家庭价值观念，和延续千年的传统习俗，包括充分利用本土植物作为草药治疗疾病。”

——周小平

周小平

周小平出生于中国，并在中国完成学业。现居住在墨尔本，从事艺术创作和策展工作。自1988年，他多年生活和工作在澳洲中西部的荒漠和北部阿纳姆地的原住民村落。

他的作品融合了中国艺术、西方艺术观念和澳洲原住民艺术，形成了独具特色的艺术风格。在讲述澳洲故事的同时，他的作品也产生了一种新的美学。

迄今，周小平在世界各国举办了50场个展。1996年他与已故著名原住民艺术家吉米·派克在中国举办了联展。这是第一个将澳洲原住民文化艺术介绍到中国的展览。他出版了两本关于他与原住民亲身经历的中文书籍。2012年，关于周小平艺术历程的国际获奖纪录片《水墨与赭石》在澳大利亚国家电视台ABC播出。

目前，周小平正在主持一个有关澳大利亚原住民和华人后裔的展览项目。

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关于澳大利亚国家博物馆

澳大利亚国家博物馆位于澳大利亚首都堪培拉，于1980正式成立，2001年向公众开放。博物馆保存并阐释澳大利亚的社会历史，探究塑造这个国家的一些关键的问题、人物和事件。它采用跨学科的方法探讨历史，力求使博物馆成为一个活跃的论坛，开启对澳大利亚过去、现在和未来问题和想法的辩论。

 Ochre and Sky: Listening to the Land of Australia

Artists

Alison Page

Nik Lachajczak

Zhou Xiaoping

Opening

Mar 22, 2024 15:00pm

Duration

Mar 15, 2024 - May 12, 2024

Venue

Exhibition Hall C, 5F, Art Museum of Guangming Culture and Art Center

Organizers

Publicity Department of CPC Committee of Guangming District, Shenzhen

Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau of Guangming District

Art Museum of Guangming Culture and Art CenterThe Culture

National Museum of Australia

Support

Shenzhen OCT Culture Group Co.,Ltd

National Foundation for Australia-China Relations

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Preface

The Australian continent is vast and diverse – from red deserts to rainforest and beaches to bush. It has a long human history stretching from its First Peoples through to contemporary times. The exhibition explores the relationship between Australians and this land through a combination of ancient storytelling practices and contemporary art forms. With immersive experiences, unique art installations and totems from the Oceania continent, this is a cultural celebration unlike any other.

The exhibition includes a widescreen film and installations by Aboriginal artist and filmmaker Alison Page and Australian-Chinese artist Zhou Xiaoping. The Ochre and Sky film was created by filmmakers Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak of ZAKPAGE. It explores the relationship between people and the land in Australia. As we face global environmental challenges, Ochre and Sky invites us to find hope for the future by listening closely to the land and drawing on ancestral wisdom.

The installation accompanying it are Totem by Alice Page and Life and Land by Zhou Xiaoping. Zhou Xiaoping's Life and Land installation uses rice, the most important food in Chinese people's daily lives, as a medium and blends Chinese and Western art concepts with Australian Aboriginal art to express some of the similarities between the two ancient cultures of China and Australia, as well as the traditional practices that have endured for thousands of years, demonstrating the interconnectedness and importance of nature, life and caring for the land.

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Artwork & Artist's Profile

Ochre and Sky

Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak

Totem

Alison Page

We are all part of Country. 

We are all connected to the sky, the water and the land. 

The animals, the plants and the stories of place have been sung and written through time. 

From the moment we are born, the echoes of past generations and the energy of elemental forces start to fill our beings with the essence of Country. 

In the Australian Aboriginal world, that connection is maintained through family and ancestral memory, as it is for most people. But it is also invigorated through ceremony and ritual, and through loving Country as another member of our shared ancient family. Because when we care for Country – the water, the land and the animals – Country will care for us.

——Alison Page

Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak

Alison Page and Nik Lachajczak of ZAKPAGE are award-winning storytellers who work in the convergence of film, sculpture, design and architecture. Creating ritualistic places and experiences, their work brings together ancient storytelling practices with contemporary artforms to preserve and promote Aboriginal knowledge, history and ceremony for future generations. Alison Page is from the Wadi Wadi and Walbanga people of South Sydney and Nik Lachajczak is from Hobart, Tasmania. Together they co-create their work with Aboriginal communities all over Australia.

In 2020, ZAKPAGE created The Message: The Story from the Shore for the Endeavour Voyage exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, which tells the story of Captain Cook’s voyage up the east coast of Australia from the perspective of the Aboriginal people he encountered. ZAKPAGE are currently working with the Gumbaynggirr people in northern New South Wales to make a digital welcome to Country experience for the new Coffs Harbour Cultural and Civic Space.

Life and Land 

Zhou Xiaoping

In this installation artwork, I use rice as a medium to portray the significance of land, nature, life and love for family. Rice is a favourite and familiar Chinese staple and has also become a popular source of food for Aboriginal peoples. Ochre is incorporated into the artwork to symbolise land, and the relationship between life and the earth. For the First Nations Peoples of Australia ‘our land is our life’. 

Rice as an artistic medium also conveys a cross-cultural message about shared meanings that can be found in the accompaniments to everyday life. By using something that is simple and familiar, it is possible to feel the flow of dialogue and listening between two different cultures. 

If we examine these two ancient cultures from an anthropological perspective, it is not difficult to find similarities. They both uphold strong family values, and for thousands of years have continued traditional customs and practices, such as the resourceful use of indigenous plants to produce medicines that are beneficial to the health of their people.

——Zhou Xiaoping

Zhou Xiaoping

Zhou Xiaoping is a Melbourne-based artist and curator who was born and educated in China. Since 1988, he has been actively engaged with Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land and the Kimberley. 

He has created a unique artistic style by incorporating his new Aboriginal experiences into the traditional Chinese classic painting that he learned in China. In Xiaoping’s artworks, Chinese and Aboriginal arts and cultures meet, generating a new aesthetic while telling his story in Australia.

Xiaoping has held 50 solo exhibitions worldwide and has published two Chinese-language books on his experiences with Aboriginal communities. In 1996, he introduced the first exhibition of Aboriginal art in China with the late Jimmy Pike. The international award-winning documentary film Ochre and Ink, about Zhou Xiaoping’s artistic journey, was broadcast on the ABC in 2012. 

Xiaoping is currently leading a research exhibition project on Chinese-Aboriginal people in Australia.

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About the National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia, located in Australia’s national capital Canberra, was formally established in 1980, and officially opened to the public in 2001. The Museum preserves and interprets Australia’s social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation. It takes a cross-disciplinary approach to history, ensuring the Museum is a lively forum for ideas and debate about Australia’s past, present and future.

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